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Ongoing Research in Anthropology

The Department of Anthropology at Washington University in St. Louis is comprised of outstanding faculty and graduate students conducting meaningful work across Biological Anthropology, Sociocultural anthropology, and Archaeological fields. Click the images below to hear more about ongoing projects.

Professor Rebecca Lester: Eating Disorder Treatment in America

Rebecca Lester, a sociocultural anthropologist and social worker, is interested in how individuals experience existential distress, and how this distress manifests as psychiatric symptoms, religious angst, somatic pain, and other culturally inform

Professor John Bowen: Comparative Studies of Islam

John Bowen, a sociocultural anthropologist, focuses his research on Islam across the world and follows the evolution of acceptable foods among Muslims. 

Professor Glenn Stone: Genetically Modified Foods

Glenn Stone, an environmental anthropologist, studies the issues of the day concerning food and agriculture with a special interest in genetically modified crops.

Professor Geoff Childs: Anthropological demography in Nepal

Geoff Childs, a sociocultural anthropologist, studies in Nubri, Nepal using anthropological demography to ask- what happens to a community when the majority of young people move out for education?

Professor T.R. Kidder: Geoarchaeology

T.R. Kidder leads a team at Tashbulak to explore the site as a physical entity, as well as the way the environment influenced human beings and how human beings might have altered the environment.

Professor T.R. Kidder: TedX Talk

T.R. Kidder, an archaeologist, takes us through history to help us understand our likely climate future. Kidder investigates how humans change their world, sometimes subtly and sometimes dramatically. 

Professor Michael Frachetti: Lost City

Michael Frachetti, an archaeologist, leads a multidisciplinary team excavating Tashbulak, a lost city high in the mountains of Uzbekistan.

Professor T.R. Kidder: Poverty Point

T.R. Kidder, an archaeologist, examines a collection of large mounds built by hunters and gatherers over three thousand years ago in Louisiana.

Professor Shanti Parikh: TedX Talk

Shanti Parikh, a sociocultural and medical anthropologist, presents her research as love letters, intervention and HIV in Uganda.

Professor Crickette Sanz and Research Associate David Morgan: TedX Talk

Crickette Sanz, a biological anthropologist, and David Morgan, a research associate, study chimpanzees in the Goualougo Triangle.

Professor Bret Gustafson: Significance of language learning in anthropology

Bret Gustafson, a sociocultural anthropologist, talks about studying abroad and the significance of language study for his students and in his own research.

Professor Pete Benson: 'Pharmaceuticalization" of the Tobacco Industry

Peter Benson, a sociocultural anthropologist, discusses the changing tobacco industry and how it is starting to mirror big pharmaceuticals in its marketing and tactics.

Professor Bret Gustafson: Remapping Bolivia

Bret Gustafson, a sociocultural anthropologist, examines resources, language, and land in Latin America with a focus on indiginous populations in Bolivia. 

Professor David Freidel: Tomb of Maya queen K'abel discovered in Guatemala

David Freidel, an archaeologist, was part of a team that discovered the tomb of Lady K'abel, a seventh-century Maya Holy Snake Lord considered one of great queens of Classic Maya civilization.

Professor T.R. Kidder: Finding Anthropology

Professor T.R. Kidder may have found the field of anthropology through family influence, but finding a love for discovering connections to past civilizations is truly his own.

Professor Shanti Parikh: HIV and sexuality in Uganda

Shanti Parikh, a sociocultural anthropologist, discusses her research focusing on structures of inequality surrounding issues of sexuality, particularly gender, sexual and reproductive health, regulation, and courtship, romance and marriage.

Professor Pete Benson: Brief history of pharmaceuticals in the US

Pete Benson, a sociocultural anthropologist, gives a brief overview of the development of the contemporary pharmaceutical industry in the US.
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